[1] Raised Presbyterian, became a Methodist after marriage.
Father: John Cary Donnell
Mother: Barbara Lee Waggoner
Wife: Hilda Hays (m. 29-Jan-1913, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Ruth (b. 1914)
Son: John Lanier (b. 1918)
High School: Maryville High School, Maryville, MO (1900)
University: BA, University of Missouri-Columbia (1904)
Law School: LLB, University of Missouri Law School (1907)
US Senator, Missouri (3-Jan-1945 to 3-Jan-1951)
Governor of Missouri (1941-45)
Missouri State Official City Attorney, Webster Groves, MO
Freemasonry
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
Missouri Bar Association 1907
Order of the Coif
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity
